Falafels

I am always curious to try new recipes or doing some edible experience. I enjoy for example trying to copy something that I ate in a restaurant or doing something that I saw by the window of some food store. As part of my job, I am quite keen to know what the market trends in terms of eating and by doing that I saw quite a lot falafel. At the beginning, I didn’t get what it was even if it was quite popular as a super food ingredient. I shortly discovered that it was a fancy name for chickpea balls, so I decided to give it a go.

As part of my job, I am quite keen to know what the market trends in terms of eating and by doing that I saw quite a lot falafel. At the beginning, I didn’t get what it was even if it was quite popular as a super food ingredient. I shortly discovered that it was a fancy name for chickpea balls, so I decided to give it a go.

As buying falafel is quite expensive, I decided to give a try and make them homemade and quite frankly I have been so surprised how easy it was to make them and how tasty it is. That is so great to add to your lunch box salad as it is quite filling and give you your protein portion.

SERVE:

PREPARATION: 15 minutes

COOK: 5 minutes

DIFFICULTY:

What do you need?

200g of dried chickpea

1 onion or half an onion (it depends on how much you like onion)

Bunch of fresh parsley

Couple of basil leaves

Salt

Pepper

Smoked paprika

3 tablespoon of flour

Sunflower oil

How to make homemade falafels?

The night before, put 200g of dried chickpea in a bowl full of cold water and leave them in a fridge for the whole night

Take a large bowl as overnight the chickpea will expand

I store the bowl in the fridge as I am sure that nobody will touch it.